BuzzFeed Publishes Unbalanced Report on Blasey Ford Testimony

BuzzFeed’s Twitter daily morning Web talk show, AM to DM, did not have balanced coverage leading up to and following the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.

On Thursday, for example, the show hosted two women for a segment to analyze Ford’s testimony against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Guest Jamia Wilson said that Ford’s testimony “was bold, courageous and full of integrity,” and fellow guest Jaclyn Friedman offered similar sentiments.

In the conversation with the Salon outside analyst, the BuzzFeed anchors didn’t question the guest’s assertion that Republicans were trying to portray Ford as “a little bit nutty, a little bit slutty,” despite the fact that the terms of Ford’s congressional testimony were agreed upon by her counsel and that Senators yesterday treated Ford with respect and deference and allowed their questioning to be yielded to an outside sex crimes prosecutor.